Safety wardrobe ticket-set



Patented May 5, 1931 JNT ST'TE ERNST TENSFELDT, 0F BERLIN-CHAROTTEE'BURG, GERMANY SAFETY WARDROBE TICKET-SET Application lesl Beceinber 2G, 1929, Serial No. 416,598, ana in Germany June 26, 1929.

In stealing articles from cloak-rooms of theaters, concert-halls, kinematographic theaters and the like, the thief, as is generally known, tries to ascertain secretly the number of the check given a patron who deposits a valuable garment, the thief thereafter depositing his own, substantially worthless garment at the same cloakroom. The thief then endeavors if possible to get a check number with substantially the same indicia thereon, together with at least a unit number having substantially the same form as that of the unit number of the check which he intends to steal, as for instance 8 and 8, or l and 4, or 2 and 7, or 5 and 6, etc., or he waits until he receives for the garment he deposits a check having a number in which he need alter only the unit. During the performance he changes the respective figure on the check by erasure or painting and demands before the end of the performance the garment apparently covered by the altered check.

In order that the invention may be more thoroughly understood attention is invited to the accompanying drawing, wherein one form of my invention is shown by way of exempliiication. Referring more particularly to the showing in the drawings: the checks are coiled to form a roll a. They are provided with different patterns b1, b2, b3, etc. At c the strip of checks is interrupted to in dicate that the number of different patterns can be varied at will, so that the same pattern is repeated only after a very considerable number of checks, whereby the useful purpose is obtained of preventing the stealing of articles from cloak-rooms and the like.

These alterations in figures even though they are made very clumsily, are very rarely detected by the check-room attendants, since because of the excitement and hurry in which the public hurries to the cloak-room, a careful examination of the check is impossible, and illumination in these rooms is usually very unsatisfactory.

All eiorts to reduce the possibility of changing the figures of the checks as for instance, by giving each figure other characteristics, thereby making it necessary to remove the entire number for making the change have not produced the desired result, for the reasons given above. The same applied to checks having either overor underprinting, in order to prevent successful erasure.

The hatching, whereby the thief replaces the overor under-printing, is likewise not detected for the above-mentioned reasons.

in the cloak-room checks according to the present invention, striking differences are produced between the stub and the separated part of the check where any attempt at forgery occurs; so that the attendant can detect immediately the alteration without any particular trouble. For this purpose the consecutive checks are provided with different striking patterns in either uniform or irregular sequence repeated only at comparatively great intervals. lf a would-be thief would now for instance attempt to alter the unit of the number and try to get the checked gar ment, the attendant would immediately detect the forgery since the pattern of the altered check as presented did not conform with the pattern on the stub of the check belonging to the valuable piece which was checked. Since the various patterns differ strikingly from each other, the alteration will be noticed at once even under bad light, and in a great throng.

In order to alter a check, the forger will be obliged to remove the entire pattern from his check and te replace the same by the pattern of the respective number, however of course under the presumption, and only under the presumption that he knows the pattern. rlhis means that he must practically erase all printing from the check and replace it by the pattern and an imitation of the printing on the check, a task which is practically impossible.

It is obvious that the invention is susceptible to numerous modifications and adaptations without departing from the spirit thereof, and it is intended that it he limited only by the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

l. A check set comprising a plurality of consecutively numbered checks, the consecutive checks each consisting of two parts having the same number, and a figure characterization provided on both parts of each check, the figure of each check being distinct from those of each of a plurality of both the preceding` and subsequent checks.

2. A check set for preventing' alteration or substitution of one check of the set for another, comprising,` sequentially numbered checks, each arranged in duplicate, the duplicate sheets of each check having identical numbers thereon, and each check having,` a design thereon distinct from those of each of a plurality of both the preceding and subsequent checks, whereby the design of one check is not duplicated except at intervals of large numbers of the checks.

3. A checl set for preventing alteration or substitution et one check of the set for another, comprising sequentially nnmbered checks in the form of a continuous strip each arranged in duplicate, the duplicate sheets of each check having' identical. numbers thereon, and each check having a design thereon distinct from those of each of a plurality oic both the preceding and subsequent checks whereby the design oi one check is not duplicated except at intervals or large numbers of the checks.

In testimony Whereoiz I affix my signature.

ERNST rENsiiELDT. 

